Historical Events

1715 Earl of Mar raises the Jacobite standard at Braemar, Aberdeenshire, starting the Jacobite uprising in Scotland

1776 The British defeat the Americans in the Battle of Long Island

1798 French army and Irish rebels rout a larger British force at the Battle of Castlebar, Ireland

1799 British invasion army lands in North Holland

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 am - 9:40 am), the shortest recorded war in history

Battle of Bergendal

1900 Battle of Bergendal: General Buller defeats the Boers under General Louis Botha

1932 200,000 English textile workers strike

1941 WWII: British Royal Navy captures German U-boat U-570 on its maiden voyage; it is reflagged as HMS Graph and used by the British for nearly two years

Roman Holiday

1953

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